On Sunday, August 1st, five Christian churches in Iraq were bombed, killing eleven worshipers and wounding and terrifying many more.  They were traditional churches–Armenian, Chaldean, Coptic and Catholic– some had been there for hundreds of years.  We believe no Iraqi could benefit from this act, especially not Muslim Iraqis.  We will probably never learn who did it, and we will hear accusations condemning Islam for years to come.  This writer does not think the facts support this, or that it is healthy for us to believe it.

Some benefit from bombing churches and they are the best suspects.  One group is positively implicated in the acts. By its own words it convicts itself, regardless of who set the explosives or who made the plan. Its proponents call themselves ‘Christian-Zionists